Podcast 159: Lecture

Today we are coving Strabismus. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, midline, adaptive response, tapes, left, turning, divergence, child, glasses, alternating, internalize, working, activities, eyepatch, internalization, part, fixating, paralysis, straight, lens Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everyone in this podcast, I talk about strabismus, that means the two eyes are working together. And this therapist presented a case to me where the child has one eye that straight and one either wanders out, and there's an alternating situation. And she said that a doctor recommended that the child get some dimestore glasses, some magnification glasses, and put some scotch tape on the outside part of both sides of the glasses, the right lens and the left lens, and you'll hear my response. And what I recommend in terms of helping anybody who's got the two eyes not working together. The question is the eyes or one or both eyes are turning out we call that either alternating exotropia or just exotropia is that it's an over divergence, it's like, not able to converge. So if you're using dollar store glasses, and you're trying to tape, the person is going to have no reference point on why you're doing that. There's no learning, there's no reason why Why are you doing that to me. And so they're probably going to just do more of it, or they're going to find another compensating adaptive response. It starts ultimately I feel with developing more of the midline. So and I would even take it to more of the Moro reflex, that midline development is really the key in the eyes feeling safe enough to coming in. So you know, whenever there's strabismus, we start off and we do some of the activities just during the activity if we can include one of the eyes. So we give each I chance, whether it's the marzen ball, the ball bounce, I mean almost anything, even vestibular driven activities with the eyepatch. So in other words, we want to allow each eye to grow in their processing. And then the reflex work. So again, this is where what I'm learning about the fear paralysis reflex, that maybe that's the place to start, because the I'm turning away from life. So the metaphor is the left eyes The mother eye, the right eyes, the father I which I am I fixating more with Is it the right or the left it you know, she usually uses the right one the left. Okay, so so the left is the mother, I'm turning away from the Mother, I'm turning away from my creativity. And I'm looking more with my father I masculine. So you can kind of I was joking with one of my 86 year old patients the other day, and I said I can look at the child's eyes. And I can pretty much tell what the parents relationship is. It's in the child's eyes in their reactions and how they're aiming their eyes. Because what children do is we internalize the primary relationship. But we don't know what to do with that internalization. And a lot of times we internalize it through the eyeballs. And so when they start doing some output things, you see the reflection of what they're living in. So I think that this divergence situation, I don't think, if anything, what I feel works better with the divergence is putting the tapes on the inside part. Now you might say, Well, that makes no more than it brings the midline awareness. And it really,